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Yeah, that’s exactly the one I was thinking about when I wrote that. The normalisation of furry content as part of technical content is not a trend I’m looking
by lloydatkinson 3y ago
Yeah, that’s exactly the one I was thinking about when I wrote that. The normalisation of furry content as part of technical content is not a trend I’m looking forward to.
- chias 3y agoMore and more, people are bringing their whole selves to what they do, and how they present their own work. In my personal opinion, this is a good thing. If you find that furry content in writeups bothers you, then you can just not consume content by those authors. If the fact that these keep getting upvoted on HN bothers you, it may indicate that your preferences are not aligned with those of the community you're choosing to participate in.
- lloydatkinson 3y agoLiterally anything interesting gets upvoted, alignment is a non sequitur.
- FeepingCreature 3y agoIt's fine to dislike things! In this case, while I am riffing on Xe's design, because of how I wrote the article the people involved are, you know, actual other people, so it was genuinely useful to have an immediately visible shorthand for who was talking and what I thought their sentiment was. Using IRL photos for that would be for one impractical; for another, it's easier to make sentiments stand out on cartoons. (Not that SD was very good at this here.)
- lloydatkinson 3y agoIt’s just really hard to read